The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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...This hillbilly has been worn out by hills today. Spent the day going up and down hills clearing brush and limbs, and cut over 20 trees that were crowded or diseased - the start of getting things ready for spring. Used my crosscut saw and an axe for the exercise. What was I thinkin'?!? Nan won't have to kick my butt - I kicked my own. Been up since 11:00pm last night, so I'm heading for bed as the sun does.

Good for your son Lauri! His hair will grow back, unless he has genes similar to mine. If so, he'll lose all his hair in his 20's anyway.

Got more wood sawing, cutting and hauling in store for tomorrow, as well as ditch digging, rock hauling, and sinkhole filling (with a bank I'm digging out). Man, I know how to live. Hope you all have had or are having a great day, Valentines not withstanding!

Take care!
Chuck

Okay, having watched my lil' daughter go through each and every one of her Valentine cards from school, including 3 Candygrams and one rose shaped sucker from a secret admirer, I must admit Valentine's Day might just have it's place. The sheer delight in her voice and in her eyes may sway me a little. But just a little...........

I hated Valentine's day when I was a child at school, because the teachers always made everyone bring in cards for the whole class. The sheer hypocrisy of receiving cards from the same kids who hated your guts, was staggering. And they hadn't even picked them out, themselves. Their parents bought cheap packets of variety cards, and all the kids had to do was write names on the envelopes. And if you didn't bring in cards for your darling classmates, you couldn't have any punch and cookies.

They punished kids for not bringing anything?? That's so wrong!! I personally hated Valentine's day for the same reasons as you, and I still do. I got very mad at my ex the first Valentine's Day we were together. He spent all year acting like a jerk, treating me like crap and then figured he'd be nice because social conformity said it should be so. I can say I hope I earned the "B" word on that occasion. If you can't be nice the other days of the year, why would you try to be on that one day?

(Okay, I'm done ranting for this year.)

Lurking and laughng


Hi, CC

Personally I dislike strongly all forms of (American) commercialism!

I'm having trouble submitting. (read that as you may) I don't know if it is my computer or the web site.

My internet, and WP have been acting weird all day.

( Problems submitting, eh? Me, too.)

And literally, as well, I tried to post this and received a critical error message.

Yep, had trouble even typing this - got a message about clearing tables the first time, and we haven't even finished dinner yet!

H got two V-Day presents today - J came home on leave, and 'Gana brought home a massive card she'd made at school - in which she had written "I LOVE YOU MOM" freehand, apparently on her own. It's hanging up in the bedroom now...

YAY FOR J COMING HOME!! ! AND FOR THE INNOCENCE AND LOVE OF CHILDREN!! !

Happy Valentine's Day! You've got a computer virus!

IT managers around the world braced themselves Thursday for an expected onslaught of romantic "e-cards" surreptitiously carrying the nastiest virus around: the Storm Worm.

"Once the user clicks on the [e-mail] link, malware is downloaded to the Internet-connected device and causes it to become infected and part of the Storm Worm botnet," warns a public alert posted on the FBI's Web site Monday.

• Click here to visit FOXNews.com's Cybersecurity Center.

"The Storm Worm virus has capitalized on various holidays in the last year by sending millions of e-mails advertising an e-card link within the text of the spam e-mail," says the FBI. "Valentine's Day has been identified as the next target."

Haven't heard of the Storm Worm? That's because it hasn't "struck" yet, even though researchers first noticed it more than a year ago after it cropped up in e-mails showing photos of damage from European windstorms in January 2007.

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Problem is, that attack hasn't yet come, and no one besides its creators really knows what the Storm Worm botnet is meant for.

It could be a Russian military project against the West, but many experts figure it's actually a criminal enterprise being rented out piecemeal to e-mail spammers.

What is known for sure is that the Storm Worm and its botnet are extraordinarily resilient and adaptive.

The worm itself constatly mutates to avoid detection by security software, and the botnet has mounted minor defensive attacks upon security companies that have tried to dislodge it.

As the FBI puts it, "[b]e wary of any e-mail received from an unknown sender. Do not open any unsolicited e-mail and do not click on any links provided."

You've got good taste, then, nannarob!

Happy Valentine's Day! You've got a computer virus![quote/]


Are you saying we all have a computer virus, Merle? Because I am only noticing this "clearing tables" message when I come to WP. And I've got pretty good security on my computer. Only one virus in one year.

So do most of us!

I've never had a virus.

I take reasonable precautions - nothing elaborate. Essentially, on XP, AVG + XP's own firewall. Under Linux - when I'm just being a normal user, nothing. When I'm running a server, a firewall and a virus check for Windows viruses (so I don't pass them on).

Actually, I did have ONE virus. It came in an email. I knew it was a virus. I like to look at the insides of vuruses, so I saved it up for later perusal. Unthinkingly, I saved it to my XP desktop, which was a bit of a mistake. Windows will execute some things you place on your desktop, without asking. This was one of those. Almost instantaneously, as the file hit the desktop, AVG popped up a window to say it had detected it as a virus and killed it. I was impressed. The virus had had no time to infect anything.

So...

I've had one virus - for a few milliseconds.

If you don't have virus software, go to http://www.avast.com . They have a free product that's pretty good, and certainly better than nothing. I use it.